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Attorney: Amy Bowers
The Tribal
Education Departments National Assembly
(TEDNA) is a three and one half
year old membership organization started
by NARF under a series of contracts from
the U.S. Department of Education's Office
of Indian Education. Dozens of federally-recognized
TEDS now have joined TEDNA. TEDNA's current
advocacy activities include: 1) seeking
federal appropriations for TEDS; 2) seeking
an amendment to the Federal Education
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to allow
TEDS to receive data and information
kept by state public schools on tribal
students without advance parental or
student consent; and , 3) substantive
amendments to the reauthorization of
the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965 (also known as the No Child
Left Behind Act of 2001) to increase
tribal governance over education. TEDNA
also co-sponsors four National Tribal
Education Departments Forums per year,
typically in conjunction with meetings
of the National Indian Education Association
and the National Congress of American
Indians. The remaining national TED Forums
for 2007 is on November 11th in Denver,
Colorado.
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